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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (17937)	2/25/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

What I do is strap these little rakes on the backs of my two Basset Hounds, Fred (Fredrock, Mr. Fwed . . .) and Barney (Mr.Bumbaum, Barney Narney . . .)collectively: Das Oops. Anyway, you strap on these rakes so that they drag on the ground, then turn loose a cat, and watch the fun and raking begin. It helps to have a fenced yard as it structures their play, and focuses their work.

To: Ilaine who wrote (17937)	2/25/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Don't live on the coast. Live on the east side of the Willamette Valley, at the base of the mountains. Can't live on the coast. 100+ inches of rain. Big stupid idiots live there. 60-80 here on a bad year. The broken ship out there is making me a teentsy angry, like a lot of other smarty-pants, because frankly I think I could have done the damn job better and be done. And I'm sick of them telling people they know what they're doing. They don't. (Uh-oh. Got "started.") The rhodies are bloom-timed. They don't bloom this early because of geographical location, but because of distinct-species annual "firing sequence." Very carefully planned for that. Color, contrast, form, location, light translucent or reflected, walk-by "close" in coldest part of year, delicate cold-hardiness, shade for leaf size, sun for bloom, detail tones in fragrance of bloom and aromatic foliage, etc. Selection gives access to bloom periods (3-6 weeks) from end of January to July. Mysteriously though, lots of people have the same old shit, that blooms whenever. And mostly hybrids, which rarely have the immutable and divine species fragrances. Heh heh. Big stupid idiots. (Sorry.) (Same old shit with rhodies is pretty spectacular though.) It's a pagan panoply and they're Methodists. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Aesthetic slugs. Nothing like Paul. Paul's, uhm, tempered you see. Full-spectrum. Passionate too. Much as the Methodists might predict, however, his garden has been going to hell while he's been sick. R. dauricum, delicate seven-footer right outside the office window is blooming soft red-purple; R. mucronulatum, another tall one, deciduous with brilliant shell pink; R. moupinense, the semi-tropical flowers of white and strawberry, a low shrub with bristly leaves and interesting reddish bark; R. "Seta", (moupinense x spinuliferum? I forget.) tubular flowers, floriferous, pink and white striped, deep rich beautiful foliage; R. "Olive", (moupinense x dauricum? I forget. ) purple, very floriferous, tall too, trying to move away from a huge rusty object I put in the yard, cast iron as a matter of fact, I think it dislikes the stored heat of "sunny days" so it's "shrugging." R. lutescen, a brilliant clear yellow with bay-yellow-chartreus leaves, is just coming on. To me. It looks really beautiful in contrast with a rusty red-brown scrap gear. (But you knew that.) I really am sleepy. I think it's defense. So don't stay here for me. Go be productive. Raking is hard work, ain't it. Maybe harder than lawyering. By the way, if I ever get to name a plant, it's going to be "I Forget" or "Dunno." "Which one is that?" Heh heh.